Black and Red Hand-painted Japanese Tea Caddy wooden vessel the basket's exterior is a

the basket's exterior is a variegated honey color with faded red medallion and red and blue striping

If you are curious

it works summer to winter and with everything--I think it would be the perfect piece to wear with jeans and a t-shirt while throwing a pot or with a breezy linen dress to a farm-to-table dinner

Very mid-century Scandanavian

1 7/8" at longest

Black and Red Hand-painted Japanese Tea Caddy wooden vessel the basket's exterior is aTo my taste, this vintage Japanese tea caddy is just about aesthetically perfect. Tin, it was hand painted with a tea pot and pillow in red and other tea ceremony accoutrements in copper and silver nothing extraneous, just great proportions, simple gestures; elegant and lovely. I am guessing 1930s or early 40s, though have not found another like it. There is text in Japanese on the the back, along the seam, and it may once have had an interior lid. 3.